Gray-throated Babbler

SCI Name:  Stachyris nigriceps
Protonym:  St[achyris]. nigriceps J.Asiat.Soc.Bengal 13 p.378 ydP
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Timaliidae / Stachyris
Taxonomy Code:  gytbab1
Type Locality:  Nepal.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1844
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

STACHYRIS
(Timaliidae; Ϯ Grey-throated Babbler S. nigriceps) Gr. στραχυ strakhu  rough, distort  < τραχυς trakhus  rough, jagged; ῥις rhis, ῥινος rhinos nostrils; "Timaliæ  ...  Stachyris, Hodgson.  ...  1. St. nigriceps, Hodgson.  ...  2. St. pyrrhops, Hodgson.  ...  3. St. chrysæa, Hodgson.  ...  Mr. Hodgson sends the following diagnostics  ...  "Stachyris, Mihi. (Certhianæ? Leiotrichanæ? Parianæ? [I do not hesitate to place it as above.—E. B.]  Bill equal to head, very strong, pointed, and trenchant; tips equal and entire; its form conico-compressed and higher than broad, with culmen raised between prolonged nareal fossæ.  Nares basal, lateral, with ovoid posteal aperture, the front being closed by the very salient rude scale above.  Gape smooth.  Frontlet rigid.  Tongue cartilaginous, bifid, simple.  Legs and feet very strong, suited to creeping and climbing in inverted strained positions.  Tarse very stout, longer than any toe or nail.  Toes short, unequal, depressed, basally connected, the hind stoutest and exceeding the inner fore.  Nails very falcate and acute.  Wings short, feeble, the first four primaries much graduated, the four next subequal.  Tail medial, simple, firm.   Type St. nigriceps.  Sylvan, shy; creeps among foliage, buds and flowers, like Zosterops and Orthotomus; feeds on minute hard insects and their eggs and larvæ." (Hodgson 1844).
Var. Stachyrhis, Strachyrhis, Strachyris.
Synon. Cilathora, Heterorhynchus, Nigravis, Sphenocichla, Stachyrirhynchus, Thringorhina.

nigriceps
L. niger  black; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.

SUBSPECIES

Gray-throated Babbler (nigriceps)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps nigriceps
nigriceps
L. niger  black; -ceps  -headed  < caput, capitis  head.

Gray-throated Babbler (coei)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps coei
coei
Dr William Robertson Coe (1869-1960) US ornithologist at Peabody Mus., Yale 1910-1926 (subsp. Stachyris nigriceps).

Gray-throated Babbler (coltarti)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps coltarti
coltarti
Dr Henry Neville Coltart (1873-1922) British medical officer in India 1899-1913, oologist, field naturalist (subsp. Alcedo meninting, subsp. Stachyris nigriceps).

Gray-throated Babbler (spadix)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps spadix
spadix
L. spadix, spadicis  chestnut-brown  < Gr. σπαδιξ spadix, σπαδικος spadikos  palm-coloured, bay  < σπαω spaō  to pluck.

Gray-throated Babbler (yunnanensis)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps yunnanensis
yunnanense / yunnanensis
Yunnan Province, China.

Gray-throated Babbler (rileyi)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps rileyi
rileyi
Joseph Harvey Riley (1873-1941) US ornithologist at US National Mus. 1896-1941, collector in Cuba 1900, and the Bahamas 1903 (syn. Coccyzus minor, subsp. Coracina temminckii, subsp. Euphonia elegantissima, syn. Myophonus caeruleus temminckii, syn. Oriolus chinensis celebensis, subsp. Pipilo erythrophthalmus, subsp. Stachyris nigriceps, syn. Strix leptogrammica maingayi).

Gray-throated Babbler (dipora)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps dipora
dipora / diporus
Gr. διπορος diporos  with two openings, of two ways  < δι- di-  double  < δις dis  twice  < δυο duo  two; πορος poros  passage.

Gray-throated Babbler (davisoni)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps davisoni
davisoni
William Ruxton Davison (1850-1893) British field-ornithologist, collector for A. C. Hume in Tenasserim, Curator of Raffles Mus., Singapore 1887-1893 (subsp. Alcippe poioicephala, subsp. Geokichla sibirica, subsp. Hemixos flavala, syn. Hydrornis caeruleus, subsp. Lalage nigra, Leioptila, syn. Lophura nycthemera, subsp. Napothera epilepidota, subsp. Phylloscopus montis, syn. Phylloscopus intensior muleyitensis, Pseudibis, subsp. Psilopogon asiaticus, Pycnonotus, subsp. Spilornis cheela, subsp. Stachyris nigriceps, subsp. Todiramphus chloris).

Gray-throated Babbler (larvata)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps larvata
larvata
L. larvatus  masked  < larva  mask, ghost, spectre.
● ex “Tourterelle à masque blanc” of Levaillant 1808 (Aplopelia).
● ex “Cardinal Dominicain” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 55, fig. 2 (syn. Paroaria dominicana).

Gray-throated Babbler (natunensis)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps natunensis
natunense / natunensis
Natuna Is., Indonesia.

Gray-throated Babbler (tionis)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps tionis
tionis
Tionis (= Pulau Tioman), Pahang, Malaya.

Gray-throated Babbler (hartleyi)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps hartleyi
hartleyi
Air Marshall Sir Christopher Harold Hartley (1913-1998) RAF, explorer in Sarawak, Spitsbergen and Greenland, Deputy Chief of Air Staff 1963-1966, Controller of Aircraft 1966-1970 (subsp. Stachyris nigriceps).

Gray-throated Babbler (borneensis)
SCI Name: Stachyris nigriceps borneensis
bornea / borneana / borneanum / borneanus / borneense / borneensis / bornensis / borneoensis / borneonense / borneonensis / borneus
Borneo  < Malay Brunei  the Barunai or Brunei Sultanate, wealthy, powerful and more extensive in the 15th century  < Sanskrit Váruna  water, rain.
● Erroneous TL. Borneo (= Amboina); "44. PSITTACUS.  ...  borneus.  6. P. macrourus ruber, remigibus rectricibusque apice viridibus, alis macula cærulea.  Psittacus coccineus, cauda longiore. Edw. av. 173. t. 173.  Habitat in India: Borneo." (Linnaeus 1758) (Eos). This name, albeit erroneous, is the fourth toponym in avian nomenclature.